IBM Business Process Manager Express or Standard Edition V8.0, BPM Application Development Sample Questions:

1. A BPM application developer has been asked to estimate the number of user story points needed to implement an activity within IBM Business Process Manager V8.0 based upon the following user story: As a Call Center Supervisor, I need to review the Call Center Representative's notes for any call that lasts longer than 15 minutes. Assuming this is the only user story that pertains to this activity, how must the BPM application developer proceed?

A) Provide a user story estimate that is greater than 2, because there are two roles involved
B) Ask a user story owner to revise the user story, so that it includes the business value statement.
C) Find out which system stores the call notes before providing an estimate.
D) Build a prototype of the activity, so that an accurate estimate can be provided.

2. The process owner has requested that a group of experts be recommended to all users who need to complete the "Review Auto Loan" activity in the Process Portal. This is in addition to the users that BPM automatically recommends. How must a BPM application developer satisfy this requirement?

A) 1. Select the "Review Auto Loan" activity
2.Select the Assignments tab
3.Set the Expert Group to the specified participant group
B) 1. Add a server script before the "Review Auto Loan" activity
2. In the server script, set the specified participant group as the Expert Group for that activity
C) 1. Select the "Review Auto Loan" activity's Implementation tab
2.Select "Expert User Task" from the dropdown
3.Select the specified participant group.
D) 1. Select the "Review Auto Loan" activity
2. In the "Pre" field, add a script that sets the specified participant group as the Expert Group for that activity

3. After the completion of several tasks, an order shipping process for electronic devices must wait to receive a message from a separate inventory replenishment process before proceeding to an activity for order delivery. How should the BPM application developer implement the receive message event?

A) As an intermediate event in the process flow.
B) As an Ad-hoc event.
C) As an intermediate event attached to the order delivery activity.
D) As a message start event.

4. A BPM application developer is creating an "Order Management" process that needs to wait for inventory readiness status from a separate inventory application. If the received status is "ready", the process can resume its regular flow. If the received status is "not-available", the process needs to start a "Re-stocking" process flow. The application developer has exposed an inbound web service in IBM BPM to be called by the external inventory application. How can the BPM application developer configure the process to allow the response from the incoming web service request to direct the flow of the process? Associate the inbound web service with:

A) a service with a JavaScript invocation of an Ad-Hoc event in the "Re-stocking" process flow.
B) a service that invokes an Undercover Agent, and a receive message event on the "Order Management" process that is associated to the same Undercover Agent.
C) a service that invokes an Undercover Agent, and a receive message event on the "Restocking"process flow that is associated to the same Undercover Agent.
D) a service with a JavaScript invocation of an Ad-Hoc event in the "Order Management" process.

5. A BPM application developer wants to reuse error handling flows for common errors that can be raised by any activity in a business process diagram and its subprocesses. How should the BPM application developer implement error handling?

A) Place an error event subprocess with the error handling flow in a toolkit and ensure a dependency to the toolkit is added to the process application.
B) Create an event subprocess with the error handling flow and specify the errors to be handled in the properties of the error start event.
C) Attach intermediate events to all activities, specify the errors to be handled and connect the flow from those events to the same subprocess containing the error handling flow.
D) Place an error intermediate event as part of the service flow for all services that implement the activities. Connect the flow from those events to the same subprocess containing the error handling flow.

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